CIFS and SMBFS

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 19:46, Dave Hawkes (gmane) wrote:
> It would appear that SMBFS has been replaced in favour of CIFS. However 
> the problem for is that I get many errors using CIFS which do not occur 
> with old kernels that still have SMBFS support.
> 
> The most common error is:
> 
> CIFS VFS: Error 0xfffffffb or (-5 decimal) on cifs_get_inode_info in lookup
> 
> This error occurs on all 2.6 kernels up to and including 2.6.3-2.1.242 
> that I have tried.
> 
> Is it not possible to also keep support for SMBFS in the kernel as it 
> would appear that it is currently more stable, likely due to its maturity?

If things don't start getting a lot better, it may return in test3.
In the meantime, please let the CIFS developers know about this.
Steve French <sfrench at samba.org> is the guy to talk to.

	Dave